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[https://open.oregonstate.education/cultivatedplants/chapter/agriculture/ by Oregon State University] | [https://open.oregonstate.education/cultivatedplants/chapter/agriculture/ by Oregon State University] | ||
Before the agricultural revolution (10,000–12,000 years ago), hunting and gathering was, universally, our species’ way of life. It sustained humanity in a multitude of environments for 200,000 years—95 percent of human history. Why did our ancestors abandon their traditional way of life to pursue agriculture? | Before the agricultural revolution (10,000–12,000 years ago), hunting and gathering was, universally, our species’ way of life. It sustained humanity in a multitude of environments for 200,000 years—95 percent of human history. Why did our ancestors abandon their traditional way of life to pursue agriculture? | ||
=====How agriculture and domestication began===== | |||
[https://www.britannica.com/topic/agriculture/How-agriculture-and-domestication-began by George Ordish 30/9/25 Britannica] | |||
Agriculture has no single, simple origin. A wide variety of plants and animals have been independently domesticated at different times and in numerous places. The first agriculture appears to have developed at the closing of the last Pleistocene glacial period, or Ice Age (about 11,700 years ago). | |||
